Birthday Wishes

Some more mooching of Distress Ink to create a background with chipped sapphire and wilted violet, then when it was dry I added Brilliance Gold reinker with scrunched cling wrap.  I used a Poppy Stamps die to cut the sentiment and again in shiny gold and then some fiddly inlaying of the little bits. I love it, and decided to mount the panel on a white card and finally stamped a mini sentiment to finish. I am posting to Poppy Stamps challenge PSC#29 - Go for Gold.  Thanks for taking a peek

Love Life

mmmmm not much mojo happening for me today seeing as I have a birthday card to make for our daughter next week.... so I decided to have a play with my Brushos and was inspired by the elements of the Fusion challenge - Paris Rain.  The striking colours of orange, yellow and green against the greys and black had me stepping out of my comfort zone but I'm quite happy with end result.  I stamped on the Eiffel Tower and some grasses in greys and then added some black with silhouette trees. To finish I stamped the sentiment (that came with the Eiffel tower stamp) and then checked the interpretation and added an English version. I used the sketch also.  Thanks for taking a peek

Peace Love Hope

I so love water colouring....very relaxing for me and here I am taking liberties with the Power Poppy Poinsettia stamp... turning it shades of yellow and green.  Then I die cut a square in my top panel to one side and stamped the sentiment on the white space.  To make my image fit I had to fussy cut around a part of it and fitted it above the panel with rest behind. To finish I layered onto two shades of green and added some white gel pen to the tips of the berries.  I am posting to CAS Watercolour challenge for March - Spring and to Power and Spark at Power Poppy challenge... green theme. Thanks for taking a peek

  

'Twas the night before Christmas

A fun Christmas card from me this morning.... I am casing Cornelia's card for the Muse; Christmas Vision challenge this month. Her Christmas kitty peering over the wall inspired me to make my Santa on the roof going down the chimney.  I used embossing folders to create a textured roof and chimney stack and top, and the chimney top.  Then I used a solid stamp for my Santa... and rather than try and colour the stamp with markers I stamped him in antique linen Distress Ink and then used Brushos to colour him in.  I fussy cut him and attached all my pieces to a snowflake embossed white back panel....which I mounted on navy blue card to represent the night sky. Finished off the card with a stamped sentiment.  I am also posting to Holly and Ivy Christmas challenge where they are celebrating their very first challenge...Anything Goes, and to Addicted to Stamps and More #233 ... Holiday theme.  Thanks for taking a peek

Welcome to our 1st Challenge - Anything Goes

 

May your day be filled with love and laughter

I've been having some fun this week making backgrounds with scrunched inked cling wrap... for this one I inked the colours in strips instead of random, and thought it would make a nice background for a 'scene' - you can see what I mean.  Then I used Distress Ink to stamp the foreground grasses and added some spots of darker pink for 'field flowers' and more blue and green with scrunched plastic for my 'field'.  I stamped on a small butterfly and my sentiment. Then to finished I coloured a die cut butterfly  with Distress Ink and added some glitter glue.  I am posting to Double "D" challenge - Things that Fly.  and to Penny Black and More March challenge - Anything Goes..... I have used the grasses stamp from the Enjoy Life set.  Thanks for taking a peek

March - Anything Goes

For You tag

My post today I'm casing Marion's tag over at Tag, You're it!  # 67.  I noticed some texture in the background with slight colouring... so I used an embossing folder and added some Distress Ink as it went through the machine. I also liked the white sprigs framing the flower, so I used some die cut foliage.  Then of course I love flowers and recently I used a friends punch to cut a few of these flowers.  They have holes in the centers so after I mopped up some Distress Ink from some cling wrap I've been using I hand drew so details in black and backed the flower with black card and 3D mounted it to my tag.  Then to finish I like the white on black sentiment on Marion's tag so found this NBUS stamp and added that with a few strands of cord at the top.  Thanks for taking a peek

Merry Christmas to One and All

This morning I have finished off a Christmas card for the Merry Monday #239 challenge - colours; copper, gold and turquoise. I am also using the sketch at 52 (Christmas) card challenge CCT05.  Using copper was a bit tricky as my copper embossing powder is so old it won't melt but them I found this lovely sparkly copper paper ribbon and teamed it with turquoise ribbon down the side of my DP card panel, and for my gold I have gold embossed my reindeer's antlers and added a gold gem for his nose. I finished off my card with a stamped sentiment - I edged the sentiment panel with turquoise ink and added a few gems.  Thanks for taking a peek

  

Turn Over a New Leaf

This evening I have a one layer card to post....I don't find these type of cards easy as I'm always wanting to frame my image.  This one was pretty simple to make... I used  NBUS leaf stamps, that stamped really well with Distress Inks - I chose four green shades and masked off  areas to create depth.  Then I finished off with a really appropriate sentiment stamp.  I am posting to Less Is More challenge #319 - One layer card and Leaves.   Also at Shopping Our Stash SOS#294 with a green theme for Luck O' the Irish.  Thanks for taking a peek

SOS #294 - Luck O' the Irish